Imperfect

Imperfect

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  • 74: Vics 20
    It's all about Vic! He takes us through his history of programming for slightly more than 20 minutes.
    With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

    A Maintained List of DevCasts Vic Listens To:

    • DevCasts from Vic Hudson on Twitter

      • Vic Around The Web:

      • vichudson1 (Vic Hudson) · GitHub
      • User vichudson1 - Stack Overflow
      • App Story
      • Tweets by Vic Hudson (@vichudson1) – Twitter

        • Money Pilot:

        • Money Pilot
        • Tweets by Money Pilot (@moneypilotapp) – Twitter
        • Money Pilot on the App Store

          • Mowing Meter:

          • Mowing Meter: Fitness Tracking For The Back Yard
          • Tweets by Mowing Meter (@MowingMeterApp) – Twitter

            • Health Up Display:

            • Health Up Display The public beta is officially open. Sign up and get your Health Up Display today!!
            • Tweets by Health Up Display (@HealthUpDisplay) – Twitter

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              Episode Gold Producer:
              'r'.
              Episode Silver Producer:
              Chris Stone.
              1 hr 30 min
            • 2: Confpetence
              Confidence and Competence have a similar outward appearance but there's one sure way to tell them apart.
              With John Chidgey.

              Links of potential interest:

              • Confirmation Bias

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                11 min
              • 11: Flint Michigan
                For decades Flint Michigan derived safe drinking water from Detroit. When the supply was switched to save money a series of events unfolded and their supply became undrinkable. How could this happen?
                With John Chidgey.

                Links of potential interest:

                • Lead and Copper Rule
                • Here’s what drinking water pipes look like with and without corrosion control
                • Flint Corrosion Control Presentation (PDF)
                • How Lead Ended Up In Flint’s Tap Water
                • List of Five Basic & Immediate Needs for Physical Human Survival
                • How Long Can Someone Go Without Breathing?
                • How Long Can You Live Without Water?
                • Chlorination of Drinking Water
                • Lead Poisoning and Rome
                • Lead Poisoning
                • 2 Flint employees EM OK’d river water plan

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                  Episode Gold Producer:
                  'r'.
                  Episode Silver Producer:
                  Chris Stone.
                  27 min
                • 1: Goals
                  Analytical opens with a look at goals - personal goals, life goals and how to look at them.
                  With John Chidgey.

                  Links of potential interest:

                  • S.M.A.R.T.

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                    17 min
                  • 0: Trailer
                    Everything can be improved, iterated and refined and if you don't think that's true...maybe you haven't analysed it enough? Calculated Choices. Carefully Considered. Absolutely Analytical.
                    With John Chidgey.

                    Analytical is where I talk about different ideas and concepts that I’ve come across over decades of Engineering relating to design, managing people, projects and so on. Also other topics of personal interest like Music, Nostalgia, Familiarity and Ideas just to name a few. Essentially anything that doesn’t really fit into my other shows but I still find interesting and worth discussing.

                    I try to be careful, considered and calculated in how I do business in my career. I may not have always succeeded, and if I felt like something went well or didn’t go well and I wasn’t sure why, I just hadn’t analysed it enough. Hence the premise of this show.

                    Everything can be improved, iterated and refined and if you don’t think that’s true…maybe you haven’t analysed it enough? Calculated Choices. Carefully Considered. Absolutely Analytical.


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                    1 min
                  • 10: The Comet
                    The Comet was the worlds first commercial jet aeroplane and those that flew aboard it formed the so-called JetSet. When they started to crash, the world of aviation changed forever.
                    With John Chidgey.

                    Links of potential interest:

                    • de Havilland Comet
                    • ASN Aviation Safety Database
                    • Flying back to the Fifties
                    • Frank Whittle
                    • Effects of high altitude on humans
                    • Material Fatigue
                    • de Havilland
                    • BOAC Flight 781
                    • Disaster in the Air
                    • Non-destructive Testing Applications in Commercial Aircraft Maintenance

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                      Episode Gold Producer:
                      'r'.
                      Episode Silver Producer:
                      Chris Stone.
                      25 min
                    • 73: Everything Is Cyclic
                      Weighing up the cycles of driving vs public transport and Windows to Mac and back again.
                      With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

                      Related Episodes:

                      • Pragmatic Episode 8: A Nice Quiet Serene Environment
                      • Pragmatic Episode 29: You Can’t Fight Physics

                        • Related Articles:

                        • Everything Is Cyclic

                          • Miscellaneous Links:

                          • Personal Space
                          • Apple Has Lost The Functional High Ground

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                            Episode Gold Producer:
                            'r'.
                            Episode Silver Producer:
                            Chris Stone.
                            1 hr 13 min
                          • 9: Hindenburg
                            The largest airship ever constructed burst into flames when trying to land in 1937 in New Jersey in what has become one of the most striking disasters of modern times.
                            With John Chidgey.

                            Links of potential interest:

                            • LZ 129 Hindenburg
                            • Hindenburg Disaster
                            • R101
                            • Flash Point
                            • Hindenburg Passenger Ticket
                            • Herbert Morrison

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                              Episode Gold Producer:
                              'r'.
                              Episode Silver Producers:
                              Chris Stone and John Whitlow.
                              28 min
                            • 72: So Much Noise
                              Noise as a term is widely misused and misunderstood. Carmen joins John to sort out the signal from the noise.
                              With Carmen Parisi and John Chidgey.

                              Related Episodes:

                              • Pragmatic Episode 8: A Nice Quiet Serene Environment
                              • Pragmatic Episode 16: One Mans Hopes And Dreams Of An RF Bubble
                              • Pragmatic Episode 64: Software Radios

                                • Neutrium Episodes:

                                • Neutrium Episode 3: Introduction To Hydraulics
                                • Neutrium Episode 4: Pressure Loss In Pipes

                                  • Miscellaneous Links:

                                  • Types of Friction
                                  • Friction
                                  • Electronic Noise and Interfering Signals: Principles and Applications
                                  • Radio Astronomy
                                  • Liquid Nitrogen
                                  • Liquid Helium
                                  • Noise Temperature
                                  • 20 Tips On Reducing Noise
                                  • Sound pressure
                                  • Tinnitus
                                  • Cosmic Background Explorer BBC Worldwide YouTube

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                                    Episode Gold Producer:
                                    'r'.
                                    Episode Silver Producer:
                                    Chris Stone.
                                    43 min
                                  • 71: Off The Rails
                                    Trains and roads look like they have lots in common but the trade-offs in signalling and network design are completely different, and horrendously inconsistent.
                                    With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

                                    Miscellaneous Links:

                                    • What is a tram?
                                    • First electric tram
                                    • General Motors streetcar conspiracy
                                    • Railway signal
                                    • Railway signalling
                                    • Australian railway signalling

                                      • Support Imperfect on Patreon

                                      Episode Gold Producer:
                                      'r'.
                                      Episode Silver Producer:
                                      Chris Stone.
                                      50 min

                                    About Imperfect

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                                    Most people can look past the imperfections of everyday things in the world. For those that are unable to, this is for you.